The Dybbuk Audiobook
The Dybbuk Audiobook
- A Full Cast
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2009-05-05
- 1 h 36 min
Summary:
In the folklore of Eastern Western european Jewry, a dybbuk is a wandering soul that comes to rest in the torso of a full time income person. In this case, the dybbuk can be an impoverished student that possesses a bride on her behalf wedding day. She is taken to an excellent Chassidic rabbi for exorcism. But before he can expel the heart, the sage must discover who the dybbuk was in lifestyle, why he provides possessed the maiden, & most importantly, how exactly to sense of balance the scales of cosmic justice.
Part folk tale, part love tale, and component allegory, The Dybbuk re-creates the atmosphere of a bygone period, with all its rich laughter, music, folkways, magic, and mankind. This Audie Award-winning creation with the Hollywood Movie theater of the Ear, the only sound recording of the revered play in the English language, was permitted in part by a give from Steven Spielberg’s Righteous People Foundation.